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This week’s collection of inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets about education and instructional technology articles, resources, etc.
(Originally posted on Twitter by @EmergingEdTech [2] over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers).
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Tools, tools, and more tools, and a major dose of #Flipclass! Learned about a lot of new (new to me, that is) great free web apps for the digital classroom at FlipCon14 this week. We also had a heavy focus on flipped classroom articles. FlipCon14 was pretty awesome!
Just learned about Kahoot, a game-based classroom response system, at #Flipcon14. Looks pretty cool!
https://getkahoot.com/ [3]
Thinglink - post a pic and add pop up tags, links (add info to infographics or map, for example)
https://www.thinglink.com/ [4]
Educanon - add questions to a video, that students have to answer before they move on
http://www.educanon.com/ [5]
Openness in the flipped classroom — Students as creators and collaborators - interesting read:
http://jonbergmann.com/students-as-creators-of-content/ [6]
Another new tool from #Flipcon14 -Padlet, a digital ‘wall’ anyone can post to with ease
http://padlet.com [7]
Newsela provides great articles & each be read at 5 different reading levels! Awesome
https://newsela.com/about/ [8]
4 Of The Fastest Growing Trends In Education Technology
http://www.teachthought.com/trends/4-fastest-growing-trends-education-technology/ [9]
Teachers are still the ‘killer app’ in the digital classroom
http://news.tes.co.uk/b/news/2014/06/23/teachers-are-the-quot-killer-app-quot-in-boosting-student-achievement.aspx [10]
Study: The Reality Of Mobile Technology In K-12
http://www.teachthought.com/technology/study-reality-mobile-technology-k-12/ [11]
“They may not always remember what you taught them, but they will always remember how you made them feel”
http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/what-are-you-going-to-do-to-inspire-students/#comment-1443682756 [12]
Classroom Management and the Flipped Class
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/classroom-management-and-flipped-class-jon-bergmann [13]
A Playlist of 3 Minute Teaching w/Tech Tutorial Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKv1W3kJyW4&list=PLVj5ks82jnjBgAct6_jWCgOx3PetmjfMA [14]
Related Posts (if the above topic is of interest, you might want to check these out):
3 Minute Teaching with Tech Tutorial Video – Movenote for Flipped or Blended Content [15]
Education Technology Thought Leader Interview – Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. [16]
5 Tech Savvy Teaching Tools That Your Students Will Love and Your Peers Will Envy [17]
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About Kelly Walsh [22]
Kelly Walsh is Chief Information Officer at The College of Westchester, in White Plains, NY, where he also teaches. In 2009, Walsh founded EmergingEdTech.com. As an education and instructional technology advocate, he frequently delivers presentations on a variety of related topics at schools and conferences across the U.S. Walsh is also an author, and online educator, regularly running Flipped Class Workshops [23] online. His eBook, the Flipped Classroom Workshop-in-a-Book is available here [24]. Kelly also writes, records, and performs original music ... stop by kwalshmusic.com [25] and have a listen!
[Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are my own, or those of other writers, and not those of my employer. - K. Walsh]